These are a couple videos highlighting the lives of 69-year-old funeral director Hisao Mitani and his 26-year old African spurred tortoise, Bon-Chan. The two have been together since Mitani’s wife found Bon-Chan in a pet shop 26 years ago, and since the tortoise was about 10 (and a decent size),

Serving as definitive proof that aliens, are, in fact, among us, this is some video of a deep sea glass squid (Taonius borealis) captured by researchers aboard the NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer using a remotely operated vehicle near the Aleutian Islands. Just look at that thing! The way it opens

Because this is the internet and the internet will never stops internetting until I decide I’ve had enough and push the big red button (I get closer every day — recent afternoons I’ve even been lifting its clear plastic cover and caressing the button with my index finger), this is

Maker of period accurate medieval weaponry (mostly swords, crossbows, and daggers), Tod of Tod’s Workshop went and constructed himself a trebuchet. And in this video he uses it to launch a packet of 100 darts (held together with a burning fuse so they disperse in the air) to see how

This is a video of musician Moyun, who never shows her face, performing Michael Jackson’s 1982 banger ‘Beat It’ on a traditional Chinese guzheng. She does a great job. Me? I never show my face either, although likely for completely different reasons. Maybe she does it for an air of

Using AI to reproduce the voice of David Attenborough, filmmaker Tommy Brennan created this nature documentary style video about the life of a house cat. I can never get enough David Attenborough, so even if was a computer generated him, I was hooked. TRUE STORY: I actually met David Attenborough

Remember the previously posted infinite LEGO domino loop machine? If I’m being honest, I only barely did. When I saw this video a dim light went off in the back of my brain, and I had to cautiously make my way towards it (keeping an eye out for where I

This is a video of Youtuber Kentucky Ballistics firing the Fury punt gun (punt guns were originally designed to mount to a small boat, aka punt, and be able to shoot all the waterfowl at once), what is allegedly the current world’s largest shotgun. The unit weighs in at 150